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tripletail

DEFINITIONS OF: tripletail

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n large food fish of warm waters worldwide having long anal and dorsal fins that with a caudal fin suggest a three-lobed tail

Types:
Atlantic tripletail, Lobotes surinamensis
tripletail found from Cape Cod to northern South America
Lobotes pacificus, Pacific tripletail
tripletail found in the Pacific
Type of:
percoid, percoid fish, percoidean
any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
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